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Illustration from Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
Warwick Goble 1863-1943 British Illustrator
Medieval tragedy & intrigue for #WaterhouseWednesday. With the Rapunzel-like 'Fair Rosamund' (1916, priv.coll) we return to Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II, kept in a tower surrounded by a maze, a tale which fascinated Chaucer, Tennyson, Swinburne, Rossetti & Burne-Jones.
Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & placed in a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. #FolkloreThursday Img: Cicely Barker
Something different for a Sunday! This was my senior thesis from yeeaars back, kind of a mash-up between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and The Dover Boys. It has a very "early 2000s" illustration look to it, I know, haha.
Sadly the raws are on some forgotten Zip disk somewhere
9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in #Westminster Abbey near #Chaucer & #Spenser #otd
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In 1809, stung by criticisms of his work and angered by being double-crossed out of a potentially lucrative commission of Chaucer illustrations, #WilliamBlake decided to put on his own art exhibition.
It was a colossal failure. 1/x
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Unlike French chivalric romances (and Chaucer), which opened with the first bloom of spring, English romances often took place around Christmas.
The River Neckinger swirls with stories. Is it named for a water spirit or the noose that hung here? Did Cnut change its course in 1016? Chaucer's pilgrims crossed it. Dickens took Twist to Jacob's Island, the rookery in the marsh where its waters met the Thames #folklorethursday
"Yes, they even banned The Canterbury Tales." @GrantaMag 3/3/2017 https://t.co/RgcbLNPMyh
Some Chaucer in the collections here (fully digitized) Takamiya MS 32 https://t.co/LKz7eG0SL5 Takamiya MS 24 https://t.co/ixTnrPMwmq #BannedBooksWeek
The Metamorphoses by Ovid For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton.
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Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & put into a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. #FolkloreThursday Image: Cicely Barker
Hi! I make semi-regular diary comics with occasional guest appearances by Chaucer, Bruce the Horse, my cat, my kid, Switzerland, and pigeons.
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And lastly today, here is the FCBD story that started my style of Mouse Guard short folktales. Inspired by Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale & @jk_rowling's Tale of the Three Brothers here is The Wise Weaver: https://t.co/SmG2vUkPmz #FreeComicBookDay
Happy #LancashireDay ! Did you know Both Elizabeth & William Gaskell were interested in the way in which the Lancashire dialect had its roots in Anglo-Saxon & in its usage by authors such as Shakespeare and Chaucer? Find out more in our #lancashireday blog https://t.co/NKqZRR2fAE
This week for (late) #TypographyTuesday we present some ornate initials from Geoffrey Chaucer’s A.B.C. called La Prierie de Nostre Dame, printed in San Francisco by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in an edition of 1000 copies in 1967. Learn more here: https://t.co/4jb5RmQgme